“Look - Mcaint needs 42% of the remaining delegates to wrap this up. If conservatives vote against him out of protest, then he won’t get them. Can you say “brokered convention?”
Does that count assume that Romney keeps all his delegates? What if Romney can throw some to McCain? I don’t know exactly how this works, and whether candidates who have dropped out can control who their delegates support.
Yes, it presumes that Mitt might have an interest in participating at a brokered convention, why else hold on to your delegates by suspending a campaign instead of just dropping out?
What if Romney throws his delegates to Huckabee?